Yeah part of the reason it’s so tedious is that our application architecture is always Handler->Controller->Gateway or Repository->External Client, a pattern we

Yeah part of the reason it’s so tedious is that our application architecture is always Handler->Controller->Gateway or Repository->External Client, a pattern we first developed for Python. Errors mostly originate in the external clients and then have to be returned through all the layers. When I read open source projects there is a lot more “PHP spaghetti” with business logic and storage interactions right inside handlers, which is indeed easier for error handling, but definitely has other problems.